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  • Two people were killed and six U.S. Marshals were shot in the ensuing riot, after which Walker was temporarily sent to a mental institution and held on federal charges of sedition.†   (source)
  • Nor was it beyond reason to imagine that the time could come when America, of necessity, might have to resort to something of the kind—as "an asylum against discord, seditions, and civil war"—in order to preserve the laws and liberties of the people.†   (source)
  • He's all but accusing you of sedition.†   (source)
  • He'd talked half of her barons into deserting her, while pretending to be an ally, and his sedition nearly dethroned her.†   (source)
  • But I also believe that the methods of the abolitionists as a whole have been dangerously close to sedition on a number of occasions.†   (source)
  • In an army wracked by mutiny, conversations such as these were nothing more than coded sedition, and if the officer didn't understand the code, all the more reason to stop it.†   (source)
  • While the dread of punishment discourages sedition, the hope of immunity encourages it.†   (source)
  • George Washington ...Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and 'Light Horse' Harry Lee ...were all Rebels....Our martyred Saviour was called seditious, and I may be pardoned if I rejoice that I am a Rebel.†   (source)
  • It contained the order for Napoleon Bonaparte to be placed under immediate arrest, to be returned to Paris in irons to stand trial for treason, sedition, disloyalty, and malfeasance.†   (source)
  • At the Institute, being a Democrat was beginning to smack of sedition.†   (source)
  • Nor could he expect sympathy from Jefferson's Republican Senators, who had recently completed a bitter campaign against his father and the Alien and Sedition Laws which bore his approval.†   (source)
  • Sedition is a punishable offense for members of the U.S. military.
  • The sedition law signed by John Adams proved unpopular and was soon allowed to expire.
  • Even Mussolini didn't find them seditious, despite my admiration for Croce.†   (source)
  • After a time we passed the remains of a building, just the foundations all blackened, and the dealer pointed it out, and told me it was the celebrated Montgomery's Tavern, which was where Mackenzie and his band of ragtags held their seditious meetings, and set out to march down Yonge Street, during the Rebellion.†   (source)
  • Referring to Sunday's boisterous Maple Leaf Gardens rally in Toronto, when 15,000 Communists staged a hysterical welcome for their leader Tim Buck, jailed for seditious conspiracy but paroled Saturday from Kingston's Portsmouth Penitentiary, Mr. Griffen expressed himself alarmed by the Government's "caving in to pressure" in the form of a petition signed by 200,000 "deluded bleeding hearts."†   (source)
  • It is important to remember that treason will often be connected with seditious acts by a group of people in the community, as recently happened in Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • They were not seditious in a political sense, being apolitical, though in some places being apolitical is the most extreme political statement you can make.†   (source)
  • And is Mr. McLean writing seditious poetry telling the world that the Commandant in Charge of Discipline has no hair on his nuts?†   (source)
  • Subversion, sedition, blasphemy, heresy, all rolled into one.†   (source)
  • She backs away, as if worried that I'll spread my sedition.†   (source)
  • Treason, sedition, malfeasance, and if that weren't enough, now insubordination.†   (source)
  • Students here are like starving sharks when it comes to sedition.†   (source)
  • If it has enough power, sedition factions will fear punishment by the national government.†   (source)
  • He accuses me of sedition every other week.†   (source)
  • Is this bum McLean spreading sedition among my lamblets?†   (source)
  • "Sedition," Lieutenant Skaaiat said.†   (source)
  • There were some Federalists who had mixed feelings about the Sedition Act, and John Marshall was openly opposed.†   (source)
  • Further, under the Sedition Act anyone openly criticizing the President ran the risk of being fined or sent to prison.†   (source)
  • Callender, having served his sentence for violating the Sedition Act,was out of jail by the time Jefferson took office.†   (source)
  • And the national government will do a better job repressing tendencies toward sedition than a single State.†   (source)
  • But that would be sedition.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, when the causes of the sedition inflame the resentments of the majority party, they might be obstinate and inexorable when policy demands clemency.†   (source)
  • In a matter of days, Congress abrogated the French-American treaties of 1778, created a permanent Marine Corps, passed the Sedition Act, and approved the nomination of Washington as supreme commander.†   (source)
  • During an internal revolt or an invasion by a foreign nation, the militia can be marched into a neighboring State to defend against an invader or guard the republic against the violence of faction or sedition.†   (source)
  • Such stalwart, respected Federalists as Senators Theodore Sedgwick of Massachusetts and James Lloyd of Maryland were strongly in support of the Sedition Act.†   (source)
  • That Adams valued and trusted her judgment ahead of that of any of his departmentheads there is no question, and she could well have been decisive in persuading Adams to support the Sedition Act.†   (source)
  • Among his first decisions after taking office was to release from jail those sentenced for violating the Sedition Act, and with the avid support of the Republican majority in Congress, he did away with Adams's Judiciary Act and the new circuit courts.†   (source)
  • You and I have passed our lives in serious times," he reminded Jefferson, and, as an example, pointed to the all-too-serious perils of sedition contained in the Kentucky Resolutions, unaware that Jefferson had been their author.†   (source)
  • "Yet daringly do the vile incendiaries keep up in Bache's paper the most wicked and base, violent and culminating abuse," she wrote another day, sure that "nothing will have effect until Congress passes a Sedition Bill."†   (source)
  • "Bearing neither malice or ill will towards anyone, not even the most deluded ....I wish the laws of our country were competent to punish the stirrer up of sedition, the writer and printer of base and unfounded calumny," she wrote, and the key word to her was "unfounded."†   (source)
  • Vice President Jefferson, having no wish to be present for the inevitable passage of the Sedition Act, or anything more that might take place in such an atmosphere, quietly packed and went home to Monticello.†   (source)
  • If he was less than outstanding as an administrator, if he had too readily gone along with the Mien and Sedition Acts, and was slow to see deceit within his own cabinet, he had managed nonetheless to cope with a divided country and a divided party, and in the end achieved a rare level of statesmanship.†   (source)
  • Of greater consequence was the Sedition Act, which made any "False, scandalous, and malicious" writing against the government, Congress, or the President, or any attempt "to excite against them ....the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition," crimes punishable by fine and imprisonment.†   (source)
  • Because there was a war going on and because the Institute was losing a number of its graduates each month, my refusal to sign an Army contract my junior year was seen as a betrayal of the Institute and an act of minor sedition against my country.†   (source)
  • He confessed to the assassination of eminent Party members, the distribution of seditious pamphlets, embezzlement of public funds, sale of military secrets, sabotage of every kind.†   (source)
  • Our King saw that the one thing needful was to restore order: to curb the excessive powers of local government, which were usually exercised for selfish and often for seditious ends, and to systematise the judiciary.†   (source)
  • You look as if you expected me to report you as seditious!†   (source)
  • Most of the people you see are seditious at heart, and the rest 'ld run squealing.†   (source)
  • But one thing I'm not going to stand: I'm not going to stand my own wife being seditious.†   (source)
  • "seditious "—terms that bored him, and diminished his utility.†   (source)
  • I am not the man to fling myself into those clouds which break out into seditious clamor.†   (source)
  • At Schoenbrunn there was a little shadow, aged four, whom it was seditious to call the King of Rome.†   (source)
  • But one had to concede that this pathos for freedom had also brought forth shining foes of freedom, brilliant knights of tradition who did battle with irreverent, seditious progress.†   (source)
  • All these organizers, yes, and a whole lot of the German and Squarehead farmers themselves, they're seditious as the devil—disloyal, non-patriotic, pro-German pacifists, that's what they are!†   (source)
  • Without exchanging a word or a sign, Joachim and Hans Castorp were in complete agreement about this little speech: they found it petulant and unsettlingly seditious—but entertaining as well, of course, indeed edifying in its brazen rebelliousness.†   (source)
  • And then, too, this grandfather's seditious conspiracy, or so they were told, had been bound up with the love of his fatherland, which he hoped to see free and united—indeed, his subversive activities were the fruit and outcome of that honorable affection; and however strange this mixture of rebellion and patriotism might seem to both cousins (accustomed as they were to equating patriotic feelings with preservation of the established order), they did have to admit in private that as things had stood back then, rebellion might very well have been commensurate with civic virtue and sober loyalty with idle unconcern about matters of public order.†   (source)
  • You don't oppose this organizer because you think he's seditious but because you're afraid that the farmers he is organizing will deprive you townsmen of the money you make out of mortgages and wheat and shops.†   (source)
  • They abused Fielding vigorously: he had been seen driving up with the two counsels, Amritrao and Mahmoud Ali; he encouraged the Boy Scout movement for seditious reasons; he received letters with foreign stamps on them, and was probably a Japanese spy.†   (source)
  • Some of the people who had been at the station declared that Miles made some dreadful seditious retort: something about loving German workmen more than American bankers; but others asserted that he couldn't find one word with which to answer the veteran; that he merely sneaked up on the platform of the train.†   (source)
  • See Marshall's "Life of Washington," p.Footnote b: A large portion of the adventurers, says Stith ("History of Virginia"), were unprincipled young men of family, whom their parents were glad to ship off, discharged servants, fraudulent bankrupts, or debauchees; and others of the same class, people more apt to pillage and destroy than to assist the settlement, were the seditious chiefs, who easily led this band into every kind of extravagance and excess.†   (source)
  • His Majesty glared at the old man and said— "The King is NOT mad, good man—and thou'lt find it to thy advantage to busy thyself with matters that nearer concern thee than this seditious prattle."†   (source)
  • This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the law then stigmatized as seditious speeches.†   (source)
  • "Prior Aymer," said the Templar, "you are a man of gallantry, learned in the study of beauty, and as expert as a troubadour in all matters concerning the 'arrets' of love; but I shall expect much beauty in this celebrated Rowena to counterbalance the self-denial and forbearance which I must exert if I am to court the favor of such a seditious churl as you have described her father Cedric."†   (source)
  • He was again prosecuted, and was sentenced to lose WHAT REMAINED OF HIS EARS, to pay a fine of 5,000 pounds, to be BRANDED ON BOTH HIS CHEEKS with the letters S. L. (for Seditious Libeller), and to remain in prison for life.†   (source)
  • These, sire, are my maxims of state: then do not judge me to be a seditious and thieving rascal because my garment is worn at the elbows.†   (source)
  • A seditious utterance.†   (source)
  • In the thirteenth century, Guillaume de Paris, and Nicholas Flamel, in the fifteenth, wrote such seditious pages.†   (source)
  • But the sermon over, he none the less tranquilly resumed his course of seditions and enormities.†   (source)
  • What were you going to do in this damnable sedition?†   (source)
  • there is a sedition of the populace in Paris!†   (source)
  • But, why, he's this nut preacher that got kicked out of the Congregationalist Church, isn't he, and preaches free love and sedition?†   (source)
  • But just to show you how liberal I am, I'm going to send a check for ten bucks to this Beecher Ingram, because a lot of fellows are saying the poor cuss preaches sedition and free love, and they're trying to run him out of town.†   (source)
  • Ah, but his adversary was not tongue-tied, either; he knew how to disrupt this angelic hallelujah with nasty, brilliant protests, declaring himself a partisan of life and its conservation and an opponent of the spirit of sedition lurking beneath such seraphic dissemblance.†   (source)
  • As I am informed, if the people made any attempt to deal with the cause of their grievances, the law stepped in and said, this is sedition, revolt, or what not, and slew or tortured the ringleaders of such attempts.†   (source)
  • In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be punished by the chain and the kennel, barking, snapping, until such day as the head of the dog, suddenly enlarged, is outlined vaguely in the gloom face to face with the lion.†   (source)
  • "Sire," resumed Olivier le Daim, with the malicious air of a man who rejoices that he is about to deal a violent blow, "'tis not against the bailiff of the courts that this popular sedition is directed."†   (source)
  • The old scaffolding of feudal jurisdictions remained standing; an immense aggregation of bailiwicks and seignories crossing each other all over the city, interfering with each other, entangled in one another, enmeshing each other, trespassing on each other; a useless thicket of watches, sub-watches and counter-watches, over which, with armed force, passed brigandage, rapine, and sedition.†   (source)
  • thy seditious countrymen   (source)
    seditious = rebelliousness toward government authority
  • Ill for thee, but in wished hour
    Of my revenge, first sought for, thou returnest
    From flight, seditious Angel!†   (source)
  • How then could his words, or actions bee seditious, or tend to the overthrow of their then Civill Government?†   (source)
  • If opposition to the national government should arise from the disorderly conduct of refractory or seditious individuals, it could be overcome by the same means which are daily employed against the same evil under the State governments.†   (source)
  • But when they were excited by tumultuous, and seditious clamor, then it was a confused Church, Ecclesia Sugkechumene.†   (source)
  • In the second place, I observe the Diseases of a Common-wealth, that proceed from the poyson of seditious doctrines; whereof one is, "That every private man is Judge of Good and Evill actions."†   (source)
  • For as in the middest of the sea, though a man perceive no sound of that part of the water next him; yet he is well assured, that part contributes as much, to the Roaring of the Sea, as any other part, of the same quantity: so also, thought wee perceive no great unquietnesse, in one, or two men; yet we may be well assured, that their singular Passions, are parts of the Seditious roaring of a troubled Nation.†   (source)
  • But the Emperours, and other Christian Soveraigns, under whose Government these Errours, and the like encroachments of Ecclesiastiques upon their Office, at first crept in, to the disturbance of their possessions, and of the tranquillity of their Subjects, though they suffered the same for want of foresight of the Sequel, and of insight into the designs of their Teachers, may neverthelesse bee esteemed accessories to their own, and the Publique dammage; For without their Authority there could at first no seditious Doctrine have been publiquely preached.†   (source)
  • The issue in the campaign was a highly complex one, but under it lay a plain conflict between democratic independence and the [Pg065] old doctrine of dependence and authority; and with the Alien and Sedition Laws about his neck, so vividly reminiscent of the issues of the Revolution itself, Adams went down to defeat.†   (source)
  • Is it because they tend to disorder in Government, as countenancing Rebellion, or Sedition?†   (source)
  • The hope of impunity is a strong incitement to sedition; the dread of punishment, a proportionably strong discouragement to it.†   (source)
  • But one may ask them again, when, or where has there been a Kingdome long free from Sedition and Civill Warre.†   (source)
  • If people come to be pinched with want, and yet cannot dispose of anything as their own, what can follow upon this but perpetual sedition and bloodshed, especially when the reverence and authority due to magistrates falls to the ground?†   (source)
  • Upon his having frequently preached in this manner he was seized, and after trial he was condemned to banishment, not for having disparaged their religion, but for his inflaming the people to sedition; for this is one of their most ancient laws, that no man ought to be punished for his religion.†   (source)
  • A guaranty by the national authority would be as much levelled against the usurpations of rulers as against the ferments and outrages of faction and sedition in the community.†   (source)
  • with which all the rest might have been well supplied, are far from that happiness that is enjoyed among the Utopians; for the use as well as the desire of money being extinguished, much anxiety and great occasions of mischief is cut off with it, and who does not see that the frauds, thefts, robberies, quarrels, tumults, contentions, seditions, murders, treacheries, and witchcrafts, which are, indeed, rather punished than restrained by the seventies of law, would all fall off, if money were not any more valued by the world?†   (source)
  • On the other hand, when the sedition had proceeded from causes which had inflamed the resentments of the major party, they might often be found obstinate and inexorable, when policy demanded a conduct of forbearance and clemency.†   (source)
  • In times of insurrection, or invasion, it would be natural and proper that the militia of a neighboring State should be marched into another, to resist a common enemy, or to guard the republic against the violence of faction or sedition.†   (source)
  • If now and then intervals of felicity open to view, we behold them with a mixture of regret, arising from the reflection that the pleasing scenes before us are soon to be overwhelmed by the tempestuous waves of sedition and party rage.†   (source)
  • It is, that as well after the renovation of the league by Aratus, as before its dissolution by the arts of Macedon, there was infinitely more of moderation and justice in the administration of its government, and less of violence and sedition in the people, than were to be found in any of the cities exercising SINGLY all the prerogatives of sovereignty.†   (source)
  • Where he calleth an Assembly, whereof men can give no just account, a Sedition, and such as they could not answer for.†   (source)
  • It deserves particular attention, that treason will often be connected with seditions which embrace a large proportion of the community; as lately happened in Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • Every man the least conversant in Roman story, knows how often that republic was obliged to take refuge in the absolute power of a single man, under the formidable title of Dictator, as well against the intrigues of ambitious individuals who aspired to the tyranny, and the seditions of whole classes of the community whose conduct threatened the existence of all government, as against the invasions of external enemies who menaced the conquest and destruction of Rome.†   (source)
  • Men that distrust their own subtilty, are in tumult, and sedition, better disposed for victory, than they that suppose themselves wise, or crafty.†   (source)
  • For we are in danger to be accused for this dayes sedition, because, there is no cause by which any man can render any reason of this Concourse of People.†   (source)
  • Our own experience has corroborated the lessons taught by the examples of other nations; that emergencies of this sort will sometimes arise in all societies, however constituted; that seditions and insurrections are, unhappily, maladies as inseparable from the body politic as tumors and eruptions from the natural body; that the idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government), has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction.†   (source)
  • And when the same errour is confirmed by the authority of men in reputation for their writings in this subject, it is no wonder if it produce sedition, and change of Government.†   (source)
  • And in sedition, men being alwayes in the procincts of Battell, to hold together, and use all advantages of force, is a better stratagem, than any that can proceed from subtilty of Wit.†   (source)
  • And on the contrary, Metaphors, and senslesse and ambiguous words, are like Ignes Fatui; and reasoning upon them, is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities; and their end, contention, and sedition, or contempt.†   (source)
  • The Ecclesiastiques, when they are displeased with any Civill State, make also their Elves, that is, Superstitious, Enchanted Subjects, to pinch their Princes, by preaching Sedition; or one Prince enchanted with promises, to pinch another.†   (source)
  • The most frequent praetext of Sedition, and Civill Warre, in Christian Common-wealths hath a long time proceeded from a difficulty, not yet sufficiently resolved, of obeying at once, both God, and Man, then when their Commandements are one contrary to the other.†   (source)
  • For they were a long time chosen by the People, as we may see by the sedition raised about the Election, between Damascus, and Ursinicus; which Ammianus Marcellinus saith was so great, that Juventius the Praefect, unable to keep the peace between them, was forced to goe out of the City; and that there were above an hundred men found dead upon that occasion in the Church it self.†   (source)
  • are the Nerves, that do the same in the Body Naturall; The Wealth and Riches of all the particular members, are the Strength; Salus Populi (the Peoples Safety) its Businesse; Counsellors, by whom all things needfull for it to know, are suggested unto it, are the Memory; Equity and Lawes, an artificiall Reason and Will; Concord, Health; Sedition, Sicknesse; and Civill War, Death.†   (source)
  • There was yet no mention of Tythes: but such was in the time of Constantine, and his Sons, the affection of Christians to their Pastors, as Ammianus Marcellinus saith (describing the sedition of Damasus and Ursinicus about the Bishopricke,) that it was worth their contention, in that the Bishops of those times by the liberality of their flock, and especially of Matrons, lived splendidly, were carryed in Coaches, and sumptuous in their fare and apparell.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, needy men, and hardy, not contented with their present condition; as also, all men that are ambitious of Military command, are enclined to continue the causes of warre; and to stirre up trouble and sedition: for there is no honour Military but by warre; nor any such hope to mend an ill game, as by causing a new shuffle.†   (source)
  • For whereas the stile of the antient Roman Common-wealth, was, The Senate, and People of Rome; neither Senate, nor People pretended to the whole Power; which first caused the seditions, of Tiberius Gracchus, Caius Gracchus, Lucius Saturnius, and others; and afterwards the warres between the Senate and the People, under Marius and Sylla; and again under Pompey and Caesar, to the Extinction of their Democraty, and the setting up of Monarchy.†   (source)
  • impression, of the great exploits of warre, atchieved by the Conductors of their Armies, receive withall a pleasing Idea, of all they have done besides; and imagine their great prosperity, not to have proceeded from the aemulation of particular men, but from the vertue of their popular form of government: Not considering the frequent Seditions, and Civill Warres, produced by the imperfection of their Policy.†   (source)
  • So the people of the Jewes were stirred up to reject God, and to call upon the Prophet Samuel, for a King after the manner of the Nations; So also the lesser Cities of Greece, were continually disturbed, with seditions of the Aristocraticall, and Democraticall factions; one part of almost every Common-wealth, desiring to imitate the Lacedaemonians; the other, the Athenians.†   (source)
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